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The User’s guides BeoVision Avant This Guide contains all the information you need to know about your Bang & Guide Olufsen product. We expect your Bang & Olufsen retailer to deliver, install and set up your product. However, the information required to install and set up the product is The information on the CD-rom can also be included in the Guide and on the CD-rom.
Contents Introducing your Bang & Olufsen television, 4 Find out how to use the Beo4 remote control and bring up the menus on the television screen. Daily use, 7 Find out all there is to know about the daily use of your television, including how to create and use Groups and how to use teletext functions.
Introducing BeoVision 3 and Beo4 The Beo4 remote control gives you access to all functions. When a function is in use, you are informed via displays on Beo4 or on the television screen. Switch on the television The Beo4 display shows the source you have...
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Displayed information and menus Information about the selected source is shown at the top of the screen. On-screen menus allow you to adjust settings. Menu name TV SETUP PROGRAM GROUPS TUNING TV TUNING TIMER RECORDING EDIT PROGRAMS Menu options PLAY TIMER ADD PROGRAM AUTO TUNING OPTIONS...
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Daily use This chapter contains information Watch TV, 8 about the basic functions of your • Select a TV program television. • Bring up a TV list • Turn the television For information about more advanced operation, such as timed playback, timed standby, and the use Adjust sound and picture format, 10 of the pincode system, refer to the...
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Watch TV The functions shown on these pages Select a TV program Bring up a TV list are used on a daily basis. When you switch the television on, the last All your TV programs appear on a list, which program viewed appears on the screen.
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Turn the television If you have a motorised stand or base, you can turn the television using your Beo4 remote control. Press repeatedly to display LIST TV PROGRAM LIST STAND on Beo4 STAND 1 DR2 2 TV2 3 ..Press to turn the 4 EUROSPRT...
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Adjust sound and picture format Several sound adjustment possibilities Adjust or mute the sound Change sound type or language are available in your television. You can adjust or mute the sound at any time. The names of the various types of sound available are shown in the display as you You can adjust the volume or mute proceed.
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Change speaker balance or Change the picture format combination The television always ensures you the best If you connect loudspeakers to your television, possible picture. It automatically adapts the you can adjust speaker balance and change picture so that it fills out as much of the the speaker combination at any time.
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Teletext If you select a program and the Basic teletext functions broadcaster offers a teletext service, Navigate through teletext pages by using the the television gives you access to menu bar at the top of the teletext page. teletext pages and any subpages linked to the pages.
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Store favourite teletext pages Day-to-day use of MEMO pages Nine MEMO pages are available for each You may wish to refer to your teletext MEMO program’s teletext service. pages quickly, for example, if you are leaving for work and wish to check traffic information on a teletext service.
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Use Groups If you have stored a lot of programs Select programs in a Group Create Groups and want to get to your favourites Gain access to your Groups by activating You can create up to eight different Groups. quickly without going through the Groups mode.
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Move programs within a Group You can rearrange the order in which your programs appear within a Group and delete programs in a Group. > Press TV to switch on the television. > Press TV to switch on the television. NEWS >...
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Advanced operations Find out how to operate your Make your television start and stop automatically, 18 television beyond daily use. • Before you start… • Timed play and timed standby This is also the chapter that informs • View, edit, or delete a Timer you of how to operate connected video equipment and a connected set-top box.
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Make your television start and stop automatically If your television is equipped with the Before you start… Timed play and timed standby optional Master Link module, you can If you connect a Bang & Olufsen audio or You can preset your television to start and make the television switch itself on or video product to your television with a stop automatically at the same time and day...
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View, edit or delete a Timer Bring up an on-screen list of the settings you have entered. From this list, you can edit or delete your Timer settings. To enter settings for timed play or timed To view, edit or delete your Timer settings… TV SETUP standby…...
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The pincode system You choose whether or not to Activate the pincode system activate the pincode system. The Bring up the TV SETUP menu on the screen, pincode system is deactivated when activate the PINCODE menu and choose from you delete your pincode. the submenus.
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Use your pincode If your television has been disconnected from the mains for 15–30 minutes, the television prompts you for the pincode when you switch it on. If you do not enter the pincode, the television switches to standby after approximately 5 minutes.
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Set-top box operation The built-in Set-top Box Controller Set-top Box Controller menu acts as an interpreter between the To find out which Beo4 buttons activate set-top box of your choice and the specific services or functions in your set-top Beo4 remote control. When a set-top box, bring up the Set-top Box Controller menu on the screen.
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Universal Beo4 operation Use the set-top box’s own menu Use a set-top box in a link room If you know which Beo4 button activates the Once you have activated your set-top box, you When your set-top box is connected to the function you want, you can bring up the can operate the set-top box’s own menus, television in the main room, you can operate...
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If you have a BeoCord V 8000… You can use the Beo4 remote control Play and search through a tape Timed recording via teletext to play and search through a Once you have selected the video tape Recordings are easily programmed via videotape no matter if the BeoCord recorder via Beo4, all operations are carried teletext.
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Record via on-screen menu Check the recordings already set Use the menu to set a timed recording. Enter You can check the recordings that are waiting source, start time and stop time for your to be executed, as well as edit or delete them. recording.
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Tuning and preference settings Find out how to perform the First-time setup of your television, 28 first-time setup procedure and tune • Select menu language in all available programs • Store all programs and settings automatically. In addition, you can •...
First-time setup of your television The setup procedure described here is Select menu language Store all programs and settings activated only when the television is The first time you switch on your television, When you have selected the menu language, connected to the mains and switched you must select which language you want all a menu for program tuning automatically...
Register extra equipment before Determine the centre position auto-tuning If your television is equipped with the optional If a video tape recorder, decoder or any other motorised stand or base, the extra equipment is connected to your STAND ADJUSTMENT menu appears on the television, the connection is detected by the screen.
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Edit programs – move, name, delete or tune If automatic tuning of all programs Move tuned programs has not stored the programs on your Once automatic tuning of programs has been preferred program numbers or has completed, the EDIT PROGRAMS menu not named all the stored programs appears automatically and you can move your tuned programs.
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Name tuned programs Once automatic tuning of programs has been completed, the EDIT PROGRAMS menu appears automatically and you can name the TV programs that have been tuned in. > Press TV to switch on the television. TV SETUP > Press MENU to bring up the TV SETUP menu, PROGRAM GROUPS and press to highlight TUNING.
>> Edit tuned TV programs Delete tuned programs Once the automatic tuning of programs is completed, you can delete your unwanted tuned TV programs. > Press TV to switch on the television. TV SETUP > Press MENU to bring up the TV SETUP menu PROGRAM GROUPS and press to highlight TUNING.
Adjust tuned programs You can store TV programs on program numbers of their own. Fine tune the program reception, indicate the presence of coded programs and choose appropriate sound types for the individual programs. > Press TV to switch on the television. If the item SYSTEM appears on the menu, then TV SETUP >...
Re-tune or add programs You can make your television find Re-tune via automatic tuning your TV programs for you. You can re-tune all your TV programs by Please note: If you re-tune all your TV letting the television tune in all the programs programs, all Groups of TV programs and TV Preset up to 99 different TV programs automatically.
Add new TV programs You can add a new program or update a tuned program which, for example, has been moved by the broadcaster. > Press TV to switch on the television. TV SETUP > Press MENU to bring up the TV SETUP menu PROGRAM GROUPS and press to highlight TUNING.
Set positions for the television to turn to If your television is equipped with the Choose one position for when you switch the television on and one for when you switch it optional motorised stand or base, you off. can turn it using the Beo4 remote control.
Set the time and date If your television is equipped with the Before synchronising the clock with a tuned To bring up the clock on the screen, press LIST program, make sure that the program you are repeatedly to display CLOCK* on Beo4, then optional Master Link module, you can watching offers a teletext service.
Adjust picture and sound settings Picture and sound settings are preset Change brightness, colour or from the factory to neutral values contrast which suit most viewing and listening Adjust the picture settings via the PICTURE situations. However, if you wish, you menu.
Change balance, bass, treble, or loudness You can adjust sound volume, select a speaker mode or adjust the speaker balance directly on the Beo4 remote control at any time without calling up a menu, but you must bring up the SOUND menu to be able to adjust bass, treble, or loudness.
Choose menu language The menu language you choose You can select the language for on-screen menus via the TV SETUP menu. The text on during the first-time setup of your the screen changes as you move from television can be changed at any language to language.
Placement, connections and maintenance In this chapter, you can find out how Set up your television, 42 to place, connect and maintain your • Handling your television television. It also gives you an • Place your television in your home overview of the socket panels.
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Set up your television For information about how to fasten Handling your television and run the cables on the rear of the Due to the weight of the television, any television, refer to the opposite page. moving/lifting of the television should always be done by two persons.
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TV switch on the mains switch on the front of the socket shown in the illustration is occupied, and BeoVision 3 television. A tiny, red light appears below the that there is a second, unoccupied TV socket screen.
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Socket panels The socket panel on your television Speaker and digital input socket panel These sockets are only available if your allows you to connect signal input television has a built-in surround sound cables as well as a variety of extra module.
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Close-up socket panel The television’s close-up socket panel The close-up socket panel Copy from a Camcorder is located on the front of the If you have connected a video tape recorder, television, below the screen. such as a BeoCord V 8000, to your television, and you connect your Camcorder to the VIDEO PHONES...
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Maintenance of your television Regular maintenance, such as Cleaning cabinet surfaces cleaning the television, is the Wipe dust off the surfaces using a dry, soft responsibility of the user. To achieve cloth. Remove grease stains or persistent dirt the best result, follow the with a soft, lint-free, firmly wrung cloth, dipped in a solution of water containing only instructions to the right.
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Cleaning the Beo4 Wipe the Beo4 remote control with a soft, lint-free, firmly wrung cloth. Changing the Beo4 batteries When BATTERY appears in the Beo4 display, it is time to change the batteries in the remote control. The Beo4 requires three batteries. We recommend that you use Alkaline batteries only (1.5 volt –...
Choose menu language, 40 Customise Beo4, CD-rom p. 23 CD-rom p. 9 First-time setup – choose menu language, 28 Introducing BeoVision 3 and Beo4, 4 AV socket panel, 44 What’s on the MENU LANGUAGE menu, BeoCord V 8000 video tape recorder, CD-rom p.
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Pincode Stand TV programs Activate the pincode system, 20 Determine the centre position – first-time Add new TV programs, 35 Change or delete your pincode, 20 setup, 29 Adjust tuned programs, 33 Use your pincode, 21 Set positions for the television to turn to, 36 Auto-tuning –...
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For your information… Your needs as a user are given careful Manufactured under license from Dolby consideration during the design and Laboratories. Confidential unpublished works. development process of a Bang & Olufsen Copyright 1992–1997. All rights reserved. product and we strive to make our products easy and comfortable to operate.
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